Career
His 2002 book "Mambo Kingdom: Latin Music In New York" () contains a number of articles about the Mambo legend Tito Puente and over 200 other dance articles for the Village Voice, Latin Times, Billboard, et cetera He was a senior editor of the Latin Beat Magazine and the contributing editor of the Impacto magazine. He was a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, Smithsonian Institution and several colleges.